... a framework for decision-making Guidelines Appropriateness criteria FAME Fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurements vs angiography toguide PCI decision-making Tonino PA et al N Engl J Med 2009;360:213-224 ... reserve measurements are superior to angiography in guiding decisionmaking regarding revascularization Treatment of nonischemic lesions led to worse clinical outcomes Tonino PA et al N Engl J Med ... Subsequent Revascularization At a median 4.6 year follow-up, 21.1% of the PCI patients required an additional revascularization, compared to 32.6% of the OMT group who required a 1st revascularization...
... Study: C C C C To determine the demographic profile of the respondents To explore the level of family support to elderly people To analyze the health status of elderly people To find out the ... respondents were to some extent and only 7.5% respondents were facing to great extent eating problems According to the table 3, 54.2% respondents were allowed to attend social events to great extent, ... Percentage Up to- 10000 10001-15000 15001-20000 20001-25000 25000+ 03 17 27 27 46 2.5 14.2 22.5 22.5 38.3 No Child Up to 3-4 5-6 & Above 06 07 31 50 26 5.0 5.83 25.83 41.67 21.67 Total 120 100.0 Total...
... providers need to recognize the factors associated with depression in the institutionalized elderly so they can be prevented Loneliness and worsening health have been shown to be risk factors for depressive ... parents Today, this tradition is not being practiced to the same extent The nuclear family is now the norm in Korea due to the rapid modernization of society Many elderly people not want to be ... settings -Based on the sociodemographic factors Journal of Welfare for the Aged, 31, 101–117 Tiikkainen, P., & Heillinen, R L (2005) Association between loneliness, depressive symptoms and perceived togetherness...
... This indicator has also been found to be a good predictor of mortality (Idler & Benyamini, 1997) To study individuals’ health we have constructed a binary health descriptor This descriptor places ... homemakers aged less or equal to 55 years old, having a social participation in addition to a paid job, to familial constraint and to search for employment is likely to lead to a poorer perceived health ... autonomy that individuals have in the contents of their work This indicator is classified into three groups: “individuals who report having autonomy”, “individuals who report not having autonomy”...
... method The samples were put into a cooling box in the field and subsequently transported to a laboratory for evaluation In the laboratory the branch bases were put into water, covered and sealed ... planting stock of generative origin The objective of these experiments is to evaluate possibilities of natural selection of tolerant clones by situating ortet plantations and clone plantations into ... computed, representing the maximal photochemical efficiency of photosystem II This characteristic is used most frequently to assess the state of assimilatory organs (Maxwell, Johnson 2000) A...
... Smith et al (2005) based on data from 36 developing countries This study may be subject to some limitations First, due to data limitations, we mainly use anthropometric indicators to measure child ... selected based on a weighted sampling scheme to provide the rural sample The provincial capital and a low-income city are selected when feasible to provide the urban sample Villages and townships ... that eggs became cheaper relative to rice from 1989 to 2006 The relative price of pork versus rice increased from about in 1989 to in 1997, and then decreased to 4.5 in 2006 This finding suggests...
... United States website Index The Index to the Trend Tables and figures is a useful tool for locating data by topic Tables and figures are cross-referenced by such topics as child and adolescent health; ... website as available Visitors to the website can join the Health, United States electronic mailing list to receive announce ments about release dates and notices of updates to tables Previous editions ... uninsured decreased from 3% to 2% (Figure 29) In 2009–2010, children 5–17 years of age living below 200% of the poverty level were more likely to have been told by a doctor or other health professional...
... Taken together, these data suggest the relative vulnerability of elderly-only households to less diversity in their diet and to micronutrient deficiencies Risk factors for low BMI Social factors ... members to participate, offer to return later in the day, etc Ask the other team interviewer to try later in the day Make at least one additional attempt to convince the household member to participate ... ability to respond to the interviewer 80 81 What is your date of birth? What is your family status? Report code from question = the elderly person is able to respond to the questions: go to 80...
... Multiple predictor groups Historical + Current Historical + Lifestyle Historical + Disease Historical + Current + Lifestyle Historical + Current + Disease Historical + Lifestyle + Disease Historical ... groups: historical socioeconomic indicators (H), current socioeconomic indicators (C), lifestyle risk factors (L), and disease indicators (D), in study of historical and current predictors of self-reported ... framework in an attempt to identify pertinent predictors within specific predictor groups, and to then assess the relative strength of these predictor groups, and the quantity of historical information...
... used, how to go through the census tract and locate the elderly people, how to approach the elderly person in his or her home and specific training on how to apply the interview: how to start, ... considered to be non-sedentary if their sum was greater than this amount (80%), although 20% had never been to school; 42.8% had had up to four years of schooling, 11.6% had had five to eight years, ... cabelos brancos Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará; 1994 224 p Article based on the doctoral thesis of TRB Benedetti, presented to the Doctoral Program for Nursing, Health Sciences Center, Universidade...
... components consist of a vector to deliver the genetic material and some mechanism by which to introduce the genecontaining vector to the target cells Vectors must be easy to produce or reproduce ... Human Genome Project has given rise to increasingly vast quantities of biological information The field of bioinformatics has evolved to develop tools to store, manage, and apply that information ... time to project their health conditions, functional status, and ultimately their Medicare and total health care expenditures The FEM was intended to serve two purposes First, it was to be used to...
... possible to investigate if a specific life condition has any impact on health or not Age was classified into four groups up to age 50, 51 to 55, 56 to 60 and older than 60 for western Germany and into ... social networks are behaviours and lifestyle factors which are known to be related to health However, the causal associations are complex and interrelated to an individual’s socioeconomic status (Blaxter ... aged 60+ in Germany Based on this, our second aim is to find factors which determine transitions from good general health status, or from the absence of specific diseases, to a bad general health...
... Families who moved out to places no further than 300 kilometers from Pelotas were contacted and invited to participate, to reduce losses The fieldwork was performed from April to June 2005 Outcome ... potential predictor factors for OIDP, a hierarchical approach to variable selection was used in the multivariate analyses The independent variables were introduced according to predetermined ... levels from distal to proximate determinants The choice of variables was based on a conceptual framework describing the hierarchical relationships between the predictor factors [25] The first...
... compared to non-Type D men [25] Another study showed that socially inhibited men had heightened systolic and diastolic blood pressure reactivity, while negative affectivity was related to dampened ... heritability has been estimated to be 52% [15] Heritability for negative affectivity was 46% due to additive genetic factors, while heritability for social inhibition was 50% due to nonadditive or dominance ... thus to decrease their work-related problems and increase their mental and somatic health status Future intervention trials are needed to study the extent to which interventions are able to decrease...
... used to examine the hypothesized relationships by fitting a latent variable mediation model to the sample data (see Figure 1) The variances of the latent factors were specified to equal one to ... paper -based version whereas 10 rungs were presented in the computer version To remedy this, we rescaled the QOL-ladder for the computerand paper -based versions to their common denominator by ... self-anchoring ladder [50], referred to here as the QOL-ladder) (see Figure 2) The bottom run was coded as “1” and the top as “8” The adolescents also were asked to rate their Page of 11 agreement...
... covers contextual factors and includes the components of Environmental Factors and Personal Factors The World Health Organization [10] has indicated that it is difficult to differentiate between ... that it is necessary to differentiate between these components if the ICF is to be widely accepted to describe functioning in rehabilitation [13,14] In an earlier study, to identify concerns ... opportunity to provide additional concerns Importance was measured on a seven-point scale (1 = not important at all, = important to a very small extent, = important to a small extent, = important to a...
... allows for QOL scores to be compared to scores in other common diseases However, because the SF-36 was not originally designed to measure important QOL domains specific to obesity, a number of ... and other studies to be relatively insensitive to differences in BMI, using the MCS-12 instead of MCS-36 is unlikely to produce poorer measurement of obesity-related QOL Taken together, these findings ... subscale are calculated based on the response to individual items comprising that subscale; the subscales are then standardized using a z-score transformation and aggregated to estimate the aggregated...
... 0.49 to 0.64 0.46 to 0.62 0.45 to 0.61 0.45 to 0.61 0.42 to 0.59 0.41 to 0.58 0.48 to 0.63 0.45 to 0.61 60% 58% 58% 57% 56% 55% 62% 61% 0.60 0.56 0.55 0.54 0.52 0.50 0.58 0.54 0.52 to 0.66 0.47 to ... 0.47 to 0.62 0.42 to 0.59 0.42 to 0.58 0.41 to 0.58 0.38 to 0.56 0.36 to 0.54 0.47 to 0.62 0.44 to 0.60 58% 55% 55% 55% 53% 52% 60% 60% 0.57 0.52 0.51 0.50 0.47 0.45 0.56 0.53 0.49 to 0.64 0.43 to ... 0.05 to 0.09 0.12 to 0.16 0.13 to 0.17 0.14 to 0.18 0.16 to 0.20 0.17 to 0.21 0.03 to 0.07 0.07 to 0.11 302 302 302 302 302 302 302 302 0.13 0.20 0.21 0.22 0.24 0.25 0.11 0.15 0.11 to 0.15 0.18 to...
... designed to measure symptoms of depression in community populations A higher value indicates worse depression and a cut point of 16 is generally used to distinguish individuals considered to be ... Standard Deviation of Change from Baseline (original scale) Screener to Baseline * Baseline to weeks Baseline to months Baseline to months CESD 8.75 10.48 11.65 13.67 MCS MHI5 Do Less:Emotional 9.49 ... may be approximated from the screener -to- baseline information measure quality of life [27] Changes in QOL would be expected to be less than changes in symptomatology following Brenner's first principle:...
... distinguish distribution -based and anchor -based methods [4,5] Distribution -based approaches are based on statistical characteristics of the sample at issue Most distributionbased methods express ... SEM with anchor -based approaches A number of studies have compared the value of the SEM with the MIC value derived by an anchor -based approach A SEM value is easy to calculate, based on the standard ... finding of 0.5 SD by referring to psychophysiological evidence that the limit of people's ability to discriminate is approximately part in 7, which is very close to half a SD Thus, this criterion...